This Weekend: NecronomiCon Providence!

This weekend — Thursday, August 15 to Sunday, August18 — I'll be at NecronomiCon Providence! I was initially slated to be on three panels, but my travel plans precluded the first of them. I'll be on two, as listed below:

Friday, Aug 16, 11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Small Press Publications of the 70s/80s — Capital Ballroom, Graduate 2nd Floor.
A discussion of the importance and contributions of small press magazines and zines, such as Nyctalops, Whispers, Eldritch Tales, and Weirdbook, in keeping Mythos fiction alive. Despite small budgets and circulation compared to national mainstream magazines, they published many of the important genre writers working during the period leading up and into the 80s mainstream horror boom. Panelists: Paul Di Filippo (M), Tim Lonegan, Stephen Mark Rainey, Darrell Schweitzer, Alan Tromp

Saturday, Aug 17, 5:00 p.m.–6:15 p.m.
W. H. Pugmire: Queen of the Sesqua Valley — South County Room, Omni 3rd Floor
Wilum “Hopfrog” Pugmire (American, 1951 – 2019) came up as part of the Seattle punk scene and publisher of the zine Punk Lust. A devotee of Lovecraft, he was a leading writer and poet in neo-Lovecraftian fiction and poetry from the 1980s until his death. Much of his work was set in the fictional Sesqua Valley of the Pacific Northwest, and featured lush prose and genderfluid eroticism. Panelists discuss his life and work. Panelists: Thomas Broadbent, Nicole Cushing (M), Stephen Mark Rainey, Peter Rawlik, Jeffrey Thomas

I'll have several books available at the Lovecraft eZine table, where you'll find proprietor/host Mike Davis scaring the pants off folks. I know I'll be seeing many of you there. Really looking forward to it.